All Roads

I seem to be stuck on the travel/guide theme!
I talked about Jesus being the Guide...and fathers guiding toward a Godly path...now I am going to focus on the path.

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."

Charles de Lint

But do they?....I don't think so, not in the Christian walk.

📖 The highway of the upright avoids evil;
those who guard their ways preserve their lives.

Pride goes before destruction,

a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:17-18 

If there is a highway that avoids evil...there must be one the drives right through it and it sounds like Pride is leading the way! 

📖 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  John 14:5-6

To me it is pretty clear...

He is THE only Way...His path is the only way to eternity! 

I believe the Christian path is more like "the road less traveled" in the poem The Road Not Take by Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost 

The world's path will be filled with people, will seem the easiest to navigate, may even promise love, life, riches, beauty ...
that path may even deliver on a few of these ...but it always leads to a bitter end.

📖  “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:13-14

The world's destination is destruction.
Though it may seem difficult, maybe even impossible the Lord's path is the one we should seek.

📖 Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are God my Savior,
    and my hope is in you all day long. Psalm 25:4-5

As two men, one being named as Cleopas, walked the road to Emmaus following Christ's death and burial, Jesus joins them...though they did not recognize Him.  They were sad that it seemed as though Christ wasn't who they had thought He was;
📖 ..."but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel." Luke 24:21

📖  He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. Luke 24:25-27

If we walk with Him on His road in this life....He WILL show us, teach us, ALL we need! He will open our eyes! 
He will guide our feet on the right path...He WILL watch over us!

📖 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber

indeed, he who watches over Israelwill neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord watches over you—

the Lord is your shade at your right hand
the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Psalm 121:3-8

The Lord Is Your Keeper Todd Fields click to listen to the scripture in song! 

My prayer Is that you have taken the "road less traveled"...and it has made an eternal difference in your life!